Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

In this country our principles should not be silent.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.'

I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.